I'm reading koolas 'how to do' post regarding using tmpgenc (http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/57227) and trying to follow it. But prior to reading it I was reading everything I could find and downloading and installing and trying everything I got pointed at. Trying to convert an avi file I've got (>1gig) to a dvd - a recordable dvd that would be playable on a dvd player. Major hassles. Been going for three days now. Fingers sore. Head buzzing. Basic problems: the computer hard drive has only 3gig max available. The computer hard drive is formatted fat32, 4gig limit. It didn't have any software installed (its only a 10gig drive) and all my stuff is in my dead computer. I've tried a swag of stuff and go nowhere for a variety of different reasons, something different for each avenue. But then I started on AVI2DVD and seemed to get some success. Except it wouldn't do DVD but it would do VCD. Which isn't really what I want. But at this stage any success is welcome. Even a crappy VCD. This is what happened: I fed it this file: mybigavifile.avi 1,024,442 and if I remember right it said it needed 9gig which I didn't have so I selected VCD. I ran over that again to be sure before writing this and this time it asked me nothing, it just wouldn't accept a dvd choice, only vcd. Anyway, it ran okay and I got: cd_image_file_cd1.bin 829,257 cd_image_file_cd1.cue 1 cd_image_file_cd2.bin 107,786 cd_image_file_cd2.cue 1 muxed_file00.mpg 817,040 muxed_file01.mpg 105,163 audiostream 1 ac3 6ch.mp2 148,368 avi2dvd_log.txt 2 avisynth_script_file.avs 1 Besplit.txt 1 Besweet_audiostream 1 ac3 6ch.mp2.txt 2 All of which is a big mystery to me. What's going on? What've I got? The mpg's will play in media player. They seem okay. And they seem to be parts of the same movie, cut, I suppose at an 800meg boundary for 800meg CD's. Fine. (Except my CD's are 700meg.) So that's the movie. But is it? What about the two bin files? Wouldn't they also be the movie? So where do I go from here? Does this need 'authoring' before burning? Can I/should I throw some of these files away? (I'm going to have to throw them all away, I suspect, seeing my media is only 700meg stuff). I'm all set to have a go at the tmpgenc method but it tells me it requires 3.5G so I'm going to have to delete all this stuff to make room. So I thought I'd query first so's I'll know what I've got and I'll make the best use of it before I trash it. I've saved the tmpg project all ready to go when I get an understanding. What I basically need help with, I guess, is clear understanding, what software do I need, what method do I need, what disk space must I have, to burn a 1gig avi to dvd? It's got to be dvd because obviously too big for cd's. So many packages I've been led to only burn 'data' dvd's, it seems to me. They lead me up the garden path thinking I'm getting there only for me to finish up with a dumb 'data' dvd with the avi burned on it like any other file. Totally unplayable in a dvd player. And 'conversion' packages claiming to 'convert to dvd' which leave me with a motley bunch of files and directories - and no idea how to burn them to dvd, how to get a playable dvd from them. And confusion about the 'authoring' aspect. How much do I need 'dvd authoring software'? God, I don't want any menus. I just want the bloody file to play. How much authoring do I need? What exactly have you got to do to create a dvd, regardless of the content, so to speak? I mean, can't you get a sort of 'template' piece of software that'll create a dvd for you and then you 'fill it up' by dragging and dropping some movie or such into it? And can't a man have a clear understanding of what format these movies have to be in to be 'draggable' and 'droppable' into a dvd movie? Is it 'vob'? Do we need to convert everything to 'vob'? With 'bup' and 'ifo' and whatever? Why can't something take this simple 1gig AVI I've got and translate and burn it to dvd right there on the fly, requiring an absolute minimum of disk space? Or if the answers to all that is too much to ask.... what must I do with my avi2dvd files? ab
ok you need at LEAST 10gig for dvd converting/making if not forget it! yes you burn those bin/cue to dvd by loading the cue file (yes convert again to 700meg for your cdr's) nero will burn cue files... bin is just a wrapper all your files are inside (like winzip or winrar) forget avi2dvd if your new to this as it can be buggy (major headache) ---------------- ok all that said get a free app called DVD FLICK = load avi in / go to options set it for PAL or NTSC / output size 4300meg / put dvdr in drive / click go = relax and smile easy peasy lemon sqeazy... ;-]
